Film & Comics Journalism

These are the posts from April 2011

FABLES is far and away one of my favourite comic books. Since its debut in 2002, the epic and multi award-winning series has wowed fans and critics alike with its masterfully modern take on classic Fairy Tales and Folklore, rich with inventiveness, elegance, wit, emotion and action. Having passed 100 issues and now a veritable franchise […]

For all the massive – and deserved – success that Marvel Entertainment has accrued in the last decade with its film incarnations, last year’s underwhelming Iron Man II suggested that the studio seemed more focused on Forthcoming Attractions – specifically, the set-up for 2012’s Avengers – than generating a coherent film that could stand on its own merits. […]

Fans of Adrian Tomine may have been wondering where he’d disappeared to. It’s been four years since the release of his penetrating graphic novel Shortcomings and, aside from his editing and design work on Drawn and Quarterly’s Yoshihiro Tatsumi collections and various magazine and album commissions, he’s been fairly quiet. As it turns out, Tomine […]

My confidence in Zack Snyder’s forthcoming reboot of Superman took something of a tumble a few weeks back when I saw the woeful Sucker Punch, a plotless mess that seemingly merged a rejected concept for an Evanescence music video and the masturbatory fantasies of a teenage video-game fanatic. Yet, the rising fears were ultimately calmed […]